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Egyptian princess found. (Not alive.)

9 November 2012 grant 0

PhysOrg has the details on the latest royal presence in Cairo:

Czech archaeologists have unearthed the 4,500-year-old tomb of a Pharaonic princess south of Cairo, in a finding that suggests

… Read the rest “Egyptian princess found. (Not alive.)”

Cold planet Mars.

6 November 2012 grant 0

Nature reveals a setback in the search for life on Mars. We’re learning more about the atmosphere there, and there doesn’t seem to be enough methane:

On Earth, life is responsible

… Read the rest “Cold planet Mars.”

Science Art: Fig. 2, A detailed view of Earth’s magnetosphere… from Earth Orbital Science, Space in the Seventies by WR Corliss, 1971.

4 November 2012 grant 0

We had big plans then, two years after we’d landed on the Moon. We had to be prepared.

found on archive.org (pdf).

Happy 12 years in space, ISS astronauts.

3 November 2012 grant 0

Mount Washington Valley Astronomy marks a dozen years of humans living in space:

On the 12th anniversary of crews continuously living and working aboard the International Space Station,

… Read the rest “Happy 12 years in space, ISS astronauts.”

12-year-old solves psych problem with Monster Manual.

3 November 2012 grant 0

Yep. It’s the beholder. Discover shows how a D&D-playing kid helped solve a longstanding problem with how humans react to eyes:

In 1998, [University of British Columbia psychologist

… Read the rest “12-year-old solves psych problem with Monster Manual.”

Alien communication: More like Twitter, less like War and Peace.

31 October 2012 grant 0

Digital Journal points out that we might already be in contact with aliens – we’re just not looking for the right kind of messages:

The theory, proposed by James Benford, his

… Read the rest “Alien communication: More like Twitter, less like War and Peace.”

Science Art: Solar Interstellar Neighborhood, by Andrew Z. Colvin

28 October 2012 grant 0


Click to embiggen.

Hi, neighbors.

Map found on Wikimedia Commons. It’s part of a larger series showing where we are relative to everything.

Everything.

Step one: obtain a 3,000-gallon iron cauldron.

26 October 2012 grant 0

Nature has a great pictorial guide called How to eat a Triceratops:

Denver Fowler at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, and his colleagues studied numerous Triceratops specimens

… Read the rest “Step one: obtain a 3,000-gallon iron cauldron.”

Whale speaks human.

25 October 2012 grant 0

Nature listens to the strange tale of the beluga that sang like a human:

“Who told me to get out?” asked a diver, surfacing from a tank in which a whale named NOC lived. The beluga’s caretakers

… Read the rest “Whale speaks human.”

Italy imprisons seismologists for failing at earthquake warning.

24 October 2012 grant 0

And let me tell you, Nature is none too pleased:

The meeting was unusually quick, and was followed by a press conference at which the Civil Protection Department and local authorities reassured

… Read the rest “Italy imprisons seismologists for failing at earthquake warning.”

Lake Vostok is still and lifeless. Perhaps.

23 October 2012 grant 0

You remember Lake Vostok, yes? The Antarctic lake where scientists pulled up some water from 20 million years ago, just to see what things might have survived? Well, New Scientist says, … Read the rest “Lake Vostok is still and lifeless. Perhaps.”

The oldest un-translated language is getting clearer.

22 October 2012 grant 0

BBC reports on the linguists who have started puzzling out how to read and write in proto-Elamite:

“I think we are finally on the point of making a breakthrough,” says Jacob

… Read the rest “The oldest un-translated language is getting clearer.”

Science Art: Sordes by John Sibbick

21 October 2012 grant 0

A prehistoric non-bird, found via Scientific Illustration.

(Not to be mistaken for the rather unpleasant crusts on the mouths of fever sufferers.)

If there’s something familiar… Read the rest “Science Art: Sordes by John Sibbick”

We’ve got a neighbor (in Alpha Centauri).

19 October 2012 grant 1

The nearest solar system to ours, National Geographic confirms, actually has a planet in it:

The planet orbits very close to Alpha Centauri B—the smaller of two paired stars—and likely

… Read the rest “We’ve got a neighbor (in Alpha Centauri).”

Face transplantee can see, smell, taste… and SMILE again.

18 October 2012 grant 0

Laboratory Equipment has some good news about a guy who’s had a pretty hard time… Richard Lee Norris needed a new face, and he got one from the University of Maryland that seems… Read the rest “Face transplantee can see, smell, taste… and SMILE again.”

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  • Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, astrophysicist who makes music from cosmic radio sources.
  • Dr. Jim Webb, astronomy professor and acoustic guitarist.
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  • Symphonies of Science, the people who make Carl Sagan and others sing.
  • Giant Squid, doom metal about the sublime horrors of marine biology.
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